JOURNAL
Hello everyone. This update to my journal is dedicated to my sister (aka. new housemate) who groaned about how I haven't updated here for so long.
Anywho, life is finally settling back into order. As noted above, my sister is my new housemate after my previous housemate moved out and away. She's been living with me for two weeks and it has gone quite well. She's managed to inspire me to clean the garage out - during which I found a large settlement of roaches! - which has been virtually untouched for about 2 years. I have also the joy of her giant TV and awesome sound system so I think all is fair: she get's a somewhat clean garage and I get to watch her TV!

On the art side of things I have slowly started repair work on the damaged portrait. With life settling, I now have time to dedicate to making the best of an unfortunate event (that event being cats walking all over the picture). I would judge the piece about 60% done. I don't want to rush things, but I will soon have a deadline to be finished by as I've decided that the piece should be good enough to enter into a local competition. Nothing fancy, but I am hoping this might open some doors for me locally. My not-so-much-new job involves considerably less stress so I now feel I am in a place where my art can become a comfortable part of things.
Expect to hear and see more from me soon!